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Get the facts on Venus, sometimes called Earth’s twin.
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Get pictures and fun facts about eight carnivorous plants.
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Learn about Earth’s neighborhood.
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Greetings, Earthling. Ever wonder what it would be like to live on another planet? Take this only-for-laughs quiz to find out where in the universe you should call home.
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Three cheers for heroes! Anyone can be a hero—athletes, scientists, politicians, even kids. Show off your heroic know-how with this quiz, taken from The Book of Heroes and The Book of Heroines.
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If you think of the eight planets as members of Earth’s family—friendly cousins who swing by regularly and never cause any grief—then asteroids are the total strangers lurking in the neighborhood. And like strangers, their visits aren’t always welcome. Asteroids are the rubble left over from the solar system’s formation roughly 4.6 billion years ago.
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Get the facts on Uranus, a planet with a sideways axis.
opposite direction (the only other planet with such a “retrograde†rotation is Venus
